Since March 2007, Kati Röttger is professor and chair of the Institute of
Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She had completed her doctoral
studies at the Freie Universät Berlin, Germany, in 1992, on Collective Creation
in the New Colombian Theatre, after having spent two years in Colombia for
fieldwork. Since then, she has been engaged in the mediation of cultural and
academic exchange between performance artists and academics of Latin America and
Europe. Between 1995 and 1998 she was postdoc at the Graduiertenkolleg
„Gender-Difference and Literature“ at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
(Germany), followed by an appointment at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität
Mainz (Germany) as Assistant Professor until 2005. Here, she completed her
Habilitation on Fremdheit und Spektakel. Theater als Medium des Sehens.
Her research activities are currently affiliated to Amsterdam Center of
Globalisation Studies, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis and to the
Institute of Culture and History. Her actual research topics are Image Cultures
and Globalization, Politics of Performance, Spectacle and Spectacularity (in the
19th century). She is co-founder of the Master of Arts of
International Performance Research that is running in close cooperation with the
Universities of Warwick, Helsinki and Belgrade since 2008. From February 2013 on
she is doing research at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies due to a
half year Fellowship.

Title: Stages of Globalization: Spectacles of
Society around 1800 and Today

Key Words: Images, Media, Theatre, Transnational, History

Description: The research project is focused on the central question to which
extent specific relationships of the visible and the audible (image and word) in
theatrical representations create orders of looking that perform transnational
imaginations. It examines the aesthetics of theatre as a "Leitmedium" in the
late 18th-century Europe and the image-politics after 9/11, focusing on the
relationship between theatre and new media under the conditions of so called
globalization. This leap into the 21st century is introduced by the hypothesis
that the early 19th century as well as the early 21st century are confronted
with a 'spectacular impulse' concomitant to social, media-technological and
epistemological historical breaks..

Description: This project aims to create a common virtual platform to share
diverse forms of knowledge that will forward tools for a Dramaturgy of
Difference in Globalized Universal Teaching. Departure point is to combine
practices of literacy and performativity (embodiment) with pictorial knowledge
to overcome epistemological and geographical hierarchies. It is organized along
the lines and logics of the ‘Atlas’, reflecting on different reformulations and
reorganizations of the concept as it was in first instance envisioned by Aby
Warburg. Main reference points for the rework on the atlas are George
Didi-Huberman’s Atlas:How to carry the world on one’s back?
and Walid Raad’s ongoing project on The Atlas Group.

Partners: University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Theatre and
Performance Studies

Period: ongoing

3. Book Project

Title: Poetologies of artistic practices in the global
sphere

Key Words: Arts, Public sphere, Politics, Aesthetics, Agency

Description: This project focuses on increasing simultaneous cultural
processes of homogenization and heterogenization of human co-existence in a
global sphere. It questions the artistic strategies that are directed to and
performed in a global public space, by looking for new poetological claims. This
means to analyse dynamical spatio-temporal configurations and conditions of
“stages of globalization” to understand the specific relations between action
(agency) and perception (spectatorship) as a new challenge for artistic
practices (like e.g. urban interventions).

Period: ongoing

Collaboration:

This project is affiliated to the project on “Emotional Democracy” initiated
by Josef Früchtl (UvA)

Röttger, K. (2018). The Eventization of Tragic Experience at the Threshold of the 19th century: The Raft of the Medusa. In J. Dünne, G. Hindemith, & J. Kasper (Eds.), Catastrophe & Spectacle: Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century (pp. 58-67). Berlin: Neofelis. [details]

Röttger, K. (2017). Spectacle and Politics: Is there a Political Reality in the Spectacle Society? In S. Gandesha, & J. F. Hartle (Eds.), The Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle (pp. 133-148). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [details]

Röttger, K. (2017). Technologies of Spectacle and 'The Birth of the Modern World': A Proposal for an Interconnected Historiographic Approach to Spectacular Culture. Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 20(2), 4-29. [details]

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